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101) Storm warning
Author
Publisher
Reycraft Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
No matter how hard twelve-year-old North Olson tries to do what's right, he can't seem to please his dad. When a major flood threatens to destroy his hometown, North is left in charge of his little sister Rosie. A blizzard blows in and his great-grandmother disappears. Can North find his great-grandmother and keep Rosie safe as the flood waters continue to rise? Will he finally make his dad proud?
105) Not on Fifth Street
Author
Publisher
Calkins Creek, an imprint of Highlights
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"It's 1937 and a storm is brewing over the town of Ironton, Ohio, and in the home of Pete and Gus Brinkmeyer. The two teenage brothers, once close, struggle with the growing differences in their relationship. Gus is the older and more cerebral brother, a romantic who falls for a girl his family does not approve of. He is also jealous of their father's seeming favoritism toward Pete, the more practical and physical brother. Pete struggles with the...
Author
Series
Agent Moose volume 1
Publisher
Feiwel and Friends
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Strange flash floods are making waves (and headlines) all over the Big Forest! Someone is pulling off particularly confounding capers and, between the flooding and the heists, Big Forest is in big trouble. When Madame HQ is nabbed right out of a very wet Woodland HQ, Agent Moose and Owlfred must wade through clues to get her back and stop the mystery criminal making a big splash in Big Forest! Can they find this fiendish villain before Big Forest...
108) Fearless Frederic
Author
Series
Publisher
Kane Miller, a division of EDC Publishing
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
"As the floodwaters rise, Paris needs a hero...Frederic and his friends will have to battle an escaped zoo animal and fight off pickpockets and looters. But as the danger escalates, can he find justice for his father and discover what courage really means?" -- Page [4] cover.
109) A flood of kindness
Author
Publisher
WorthyKids
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"As Charlotte watches her home and town being destroyed in a flood she sadly laments her loss, but in the midst of her anguish she soon discovers the power of healing through kindness."--Provided by publisher.
Author
Series
Publisher
Magic Wagon
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Seb is pretty excited about his brand new fishing pole for the family's camping and fishing trip in Wyoming's Wind River Range. While fly fishing the Sweetwater River, Sami and Seb become trapped by a flash flood and are rescued by a park ranger. But a raging river separates them from their parents."--
Author
Series
Publisher
Magic Wagon
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
On May 31, 1889, as the waters rise in Johnstown, Pennsylvania, Sarah Beth, her mother, and Vincent, a boy she likes, struggle to save what they can from the flooding but when the dam collapses the reader is invited to choose between three possible endings for Sarah Beth and her family.
Author
Series
Publisher
Stone Arch Books, an imprint of Capstone
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"After a summer of nine typhoons in 1931, the dams on the Yangtze River in China broke, completely flooding nearby towns and farms. Twelve-year-old Ting wakes up to a house full of water and her parents nowhere to be found. It's up to her to lead her younger brother and others to safety, battling high waters and greedy characters along the way. Will the children survive to be reunited with their parents? Part of the Girls Survive Graphic Novels series,...
114) To the Rescue!
Author
Series
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
"Helicopter Roto and pilot Roy race to the rescue when a powerful flood sweeps away vehicles, strands people, and threatens homes"--
115) Mrs Noah's pockets
Author
Publisher
Otter-Barry Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"When Mr Noah builds the ark he makes two lists - one for all the animals who will come on board and one for those troublesome creatures he plans to leave behind! Meanwhile Mrs Noah gets out her sewing machine and makes a coat with very deep pockets. LOTS of pockets."--Page 4 of cover.
Author
Publisher
Thames & Hudson
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Based on his real-life work, here is Finkel's version of the ancient story of an ancient Babylonian man, Atra-hasis, as told through his son named Very-quick, when Atra-hasis is tasked with building a boat large enough to save all living things from a catastrophic flood. It is retold here in this fictionalized version of a flood recorded four thousand years before the Hebrew Bible story of Noah and the Ark that brings the lives of ancient Babylonians...
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
On May 31, 1889, the South Fork Dam built to create a man-made lake for America's wealthiest businessmen collapsed, unleashing twenty million tons of water onto the town of Johnstown, Pennsylvania, below; told in the voices of six children and many others this is the story of the ordinary people of the town, their losses and their survival--and of the bitter aftermath when those for whom the dam was built denied all responsibility for the shoddy dam...
118) True north: a novel
Author
Publisher
Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"From the author of Raft of Stars comes an epic novel of adventure and river rafting, following a couple whose future depends on finding a way to navigate the changing currents of family, community, and the river itself"--
As the summer of 1993 begins, Sam and Swami Brecht roll into town with a twenty-six-foot Winnebago camper van, their three young kids, and the deed to Woodchuck Rafting Company. Sam and Swami met as young, adventurous river guides...
Author
Series
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
It's Gamache's first day back as head of the homicide department, a job he temporarily shares with his previous second-in-command, Jean-Guy Beauvoir. Flood waters are rising across the province. In the middle of the turmoil a father approaches Gamache, pleading for help in finding his daughter. As crisis piles upon crisis, Gamache tries to hold off the encroaching chaos, and realizes the search for Vivienne Godin should be abandoned. But with a daughter...
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
©2011
Language
English
Description
Barry's family tries to evacuate before Hurricane Katrina hits their home in New Orleans. But when Barry's little sister gets terribly sick, they're forced to stay home and wait out the storm. At first, Katrina doesn't seem to be as bad as predicted. But overnight the levees break, and Barry's world is literally torn apart. He's swept away by the floodwaters, away from his family. Can he survive the storm of the century -- alone?